Access 2007 - calling/parent form disabled

[ideefixe]

Hi All,

It's been a while

I wonder if anyone familiar with Access 2007 could advise me here. I'm experienced with developing Access 2000 and I think 2003 but I'm relatively new to 2007 and haven't come across this before.

The people I'm working with are saying that when they select a record or do some other work that calls up another form, the tab on the parent form becomes disabled and they cannot click back on it. They say they were able to do so previously though I don't remember changing any setting to do this. I have put form settings to "display as tabs"

I have tried playing with the parameters on DoCmd.Openform but it makes no difference. Nor is acDialog being called as a parameter. Is it usual for Access users to have this issue? I didn't even know it was a problem until the people mentioned it.

Any suggestions or help for this would be greatly appreciated - thanks!

 

[HiTechCoach]

I have put form settings to "display as tabs"

Try turning it off.

 

[vbaInet]

There could be a dialog form hiding behind that other form that is refusing to have focus. Check your Border Style, Pop-Up and Modal properties.

 

[ideefixe]

Thanks for the responses. I will try both of those.